Covid-19: India offers incentives as government struggles to meet vaccination targetWidespread vaccine hesitancy across rural part of the country, healthcare workers sayTue Dec 21 2021 - 17:32
India’s gender balance tilts but huge challenges remain for womenDelhi Letter: A UN report in 2014 said that India’s dwindling female population had reached ‘emergency proportions’Mon Dec 06 2021 - 20:19
Modi’s party bans non-vegetarian food carts in four Indian citiesVendors also prohibited from selling within 100m of schools, parks and religious placesWed Nov 17 2021 - 18:27
India’s wedding planners tied in knots as celebrations resumeAs the Covid shackles come off, large, opulent weddings are putting a strain on supplyMon Nov 15 2021 - 17:40
Use of fireworks during Hindu festival adds to dire pollution in New DelhiHomeless and poor suffer the most as city shrouded in a noxious smogFri Nov 05 2021 - 16:45
Panel to investigate Indian government’s alleged phone monitoringTruth behind claims Pegasus spyware used for illegal surveillance set to be uncoveredWed Oct 27 2021 - 17:36
India celebrates billionth Covid-19 vaccine dose following slow startHuge disparity between partly and fully vaccinated people remainsThu Oct 21 2021 - 06:37
Thousands of workers fleeing northern Kashmir following shootings by militantsIndian security forces move tens of thousands of agriculture and construction workers into army and police camps for their safetyWed Oct 20 2021 - 17:41
Kashmir tensions return as five Indian troops are killed in firefightIndia claims armed militants crossed over from Pakistan across the line of control that divides KashmirTue Oct 12 2021 - 16:22
India’s transport minister plans a more melodious traffic flowRaucous vehicle horns to be replaced by sounds of classical Indian instrumentsTue Oct 05 2021 - 21:02
India begins 20 days of celebrations for Modi’s 71st birthdayExtravagant programme of events criticised as effort to halt slide in PM’s popularityFri Sept 17 2021 - 14:58
India’s Covid-19 waves prompts spate of illegal child marriagesFamilies ‘exploited’ lockdowns to illegally marry off daughters aged between 11 and 14 yearsSun Aug 01 2021 - 14:38
Indian health authorities face major challenge to meet target for full vaccinationLess than 5% of India’s adult population of about 1 billion having been fully vaccinated against Covid-19Mon Jul 05 2021 - 16:09
Concerns expressed over sustainability of India’s latest Covid vaccination driveLeading virologist warns of potential ‘third wave’ after lockdown restrictions easedWed Jun 23 2021 - 17:50
Several Indian cities and districts ease lockdown restrictions as cases declineShops have reopened in Delhi and Mumbai, but are permitted to function on alternate days onlyWed Jun 09 2021 - 17:38
India now facing outbreak of the disease ‘black fungus’The fungus affects recovered and recovering Covid-19 patients, and is linked to an overuse of steroids administered in treating the virusMon May 24 2021 - 19:48
Modi critics arrested as second coronavirus wave continues to ravage IndiaOnly three per cent of the country’s 1.3bn people have been fully vaccinated to dateMon May 17 2021 - 16:35
India’s second Covid-19 wave overwhelms under-resourced regionsBodies of virus victims wash up on banks of Ganges river as funeral pyres blaze continuouslyWed May 12 2021 - 17:42
Dozens of bodies wash up in Ganges as India’s vaccination programme stallsFootage of some 100 suspected Covid victims in river goes viral as oxygen shortages go onMon May 10 2021 - 16:16
India’s oxygen shortage: Volunteers work to plug void in official responseSikh volunteers and others have created facilities to get oxygen to those in dire needWed May 05 2021 - 17:30
Authorities struggle to cope as coronavirus crisis deepens in IndiaPatients die to to lack of oxygen as more than 300,000 new cases reported for a 12th straight dayMon May 03 2021 - 16:48
Vaccine supply difficulties in India hit national inoculation driveState chiefs concede inability to deliver on programme promised by prime minister ModiFri Apr 30 2021 - 17:43
India’s towns and villages overwhelmed as Covid-19 fatalities worsenPolice clamp down as citizens complain of oxygen shortages and pyres run out of woodThu Apr 29 2021 - 19:33
Indian PM prioritises ‘self-indulgent’ building as Covid numbers soarModi is drawing flak for proceeding with construction of new parliament buildingsWed Apr 28 2021 - 17:07
Hellish scenes in India as second Covid wave is magnified by political failureNew Delhi Letter: Fury is turning on Narendra Modi’s government amid abject sufferingTue Apr 27 2021 - 17:33
Oxygen leak kills 22 hospital patients as Covid second wave devastates IndiaVentilated patients run out of air as healthcare sytem buckles amid 300,000 daily casesWed Apr 21 2021 - 15:37
Shortage of hospital beds, ventilators and drugs in India as Covid cases surgeLengthy queues at crematoriums and burial grounds across the country as bodies pile up outsideFri Apr 16 2021 - 16:03
Millions gather at Ganges as India’s daily Covid tally hits world recordDeadly second wave of infections comes as two-month religious festival beginsMon Apr 12 2021 - 16:14
India and China move to ease tensions in heavily contested zoneCountries agree to pull back troops engaged in stand-off at border in Himalayan regionThu Feb 11 2021 - 17:26
Coronavirus: Diwali moves India into second place behind US for casesNumber of cases rises above nine million on foot of celebrations and high pollutionFri Nov 20 2020 - 17:52
Covid-19: Surge in New Delhi cases blamed on severe air pollutionCapital’s air quality ‘equivalent to each resident smoking at least 30 cigarettes per day’Fri Nov 13 2020 - 17:33
Indian teachers bring school to students with chalkboards on bikes, loudspeakersStudents left unable to access online lessons due to limited internet access in rural areasWed Oct 14 2020 - 16:52
Modi founds Hindu temple on site of razed mosque in Indian townIndia’s supreme court handed site to Hindus last year in culmination of complex disputeWed Aug 05 2020 - 18:31
China pulls back troops locked in standoff with Indian army since MayFor three decades the armies of the two most populous countries have been patrolling a disputed border in the HimalayasTue Jul 07 2020 - 17:59
Coronavirus: India faces exponential growth in cases, experts warnHospitals feel the strain as lockdowns are eased despite fears of a spike in infectionsMon Jun 08 2020 - 16:24
Coronavirus: India may face extended lockdown into vital harvest seasonsRestrictions have curbed virus but officials warn extension could impact food suppliesThu Apr 09 2020 - 18:13
India’s poorest face critical food shortages during Covid-19 lockdownPrivileged and middle-classes continue to live comfortably in larger towns and citiesThu Apr 02 2020 - 17:43
‘India is walking home’: Millions of migrant workers flee locked-down citiesCoronavirus crisis drives many poor workers to walk hundreds of kilometres to villagesMon Mar 30 2020 - 12:33
Tens of millions in India face ‘calamitous situation’ due to lockdownMajority in agricultural and unorganised sectors financially vulnerable, officials sayFri Mar 27 2020 - 11:18
Coronavirus: India’s vast population goes into lockdownWarning of going ‘backwards by 21 years’ if mismanaged as 1.3 billion start to self-isolateWed Mar 25 2020 - 15:52
India executes four men for brutal bus rape and murderIncident in 2012 sparked global outrage and drew attention to treatment of womenFri Mar 20 2020 - 15:47
Fear and suspicion in Delhi after worst sectarian violence in decades42 dead and neighbourhoods trashed after clashes between Muslim and Hindu communitiesFri Feb 28 2020 - 14:03
At least 27 dead and hundreds injured in violent clashes in IndiaUneasy calm follows sectarian violence over citizenship law that critics say is biased against MuslimsWed Feb 26 2020 - 16:31
Thirteen killed, 150 injured in riots in Indian capital DelhiClashes erupt between two sides over controversial citizenship law as Trump visitsTue Feb 25 2020 - 16:43
Men with catapults to protect Trumps from monkeys at Taj MahalThe simians have lost all fear of humans – irrespective of their importance or statureFri Feb 21 2020 - 18:40
Indian city builds wall hiding slum ahead of Trump visitAhmedabad takes action before US president’s arrival as opposition criticises ‘slave mentality’Mon Feb 17 2020 - 17:54
Narendra Modi’s BJP party badly beaten in Delhi state electionOpposition AAP on course for more than 60 seats after bitterly divisive campaignTue Feb 11 2020 - 14:02
India’s supreme court refuses to put citizenship law on holdControversial new law seen as unconstitutional by opposition, causing months of protestWed Jan 22 2020 - 17:33
Students across India protest after attack at Delhi universityDozens badly hurt after attackers with rods and sticks struck Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityMon Jan 06 2020 - 15:35
Modi’s party suffers key electoral defeat amid protests in IndiaPrime minister’s party concedes defeat in assembly elections in Jharkhand stateMon Dec 23 2019 - 18:00
